Korn launched their Fall 2024 North American tour on Thursday night (September 12th) at MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa, Florida.
The outing, which features support from Gojira and Spirtbox, is scheduled through a October 27th show in St. Paul, Minnesota, with tickets available here.
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At the Tampa kickoff, Korn played a career-spanning 18-song set, beginning with “Here to Stay” off 2002’s Untouchables. The nu-metal pioneers’ groundbreaking 1994 self-titled debut, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, was well represented with four songs: “Blind,” “Ball Tongue,” “Clown,” and “Shoots and Ladders.”
Meanwhile, frontman Jonathan Davis and company performed three songs each from classic ’90s albums Life Is Peachy, Follow the Leader, and Issues, with each album represented in three-song encore: “Falling Away From Me,” “Good God,” and the show-closing “Freak on a Leash.” Among the highlights was the band’s first performance of “Hey Daddy” since 1999.
French metallers Gojira,...
The outing, which features support from Gojira and Spirtbox, is scheduled through a October 27th show in St. Paul, Minnesota, with tickets available here.
Get Korn Tickets Here
At the Tampa kickoff, Korn played a career-spanning 18-song set, beginning with “Here to Stay” off 2002’s Untouchables. The nu-metal pioneers’ groundbreaking 1994 self-titled debut, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, was well represented with four songs: “Blind,” “Ball Tongue,” “Clown,” and “Shoots and Ladders.”
Meanwhile, frontman Jonathan Davis and company performed three songs each from classic ’90s albums Life Is Peachy, Follow the Leader, and Issues, with each album represented in three-song encore: “Falling Away From Me,” “Good God,” and the show-closing “Freak on a Leash.” Among the highlights was the band’s first performance of “Hey Daddy” since 1999.
French metallers Gojira,...
- 9/13/2024
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
The holidays are upon us, so whether you looking for film-related gifts or simply want to pick up some of the finest the year had to offer in the category for yourself, we have a gift guide for you. Including must-have books on filmmaking, the best from the Criterion Collection and more home-video picks, subscriptions, magazines, music, and more, dive in below.
Giveaways
In celebration of our holiday gift guide, we’ll be doing a number of giveaways! First up, we’re giving away My First Movie Vol. 2, a three-part ‘lil cinephile series by Cory Everett and illustrator Julie Olivi, featuring My First Spaghetti Western, My First Yakuza Movie, and My First Hollywood Musical.
Enter on Instagram (for My First Yakuza Movie), Twitter (for My First Hollywood Musical), and/or Facebook (for My First Spaghetti Western) by Sunday, November 26 at 11:59pm Et. Those that enter on all three platforms...
Giveaways
In celebration of our holiday gift guide, we’ll be doing a number of giveaways! First up, we’re giving away My First Movie Vol. 2, a three-part ‘lil cinephile series by Cory Everett and illustrator Julie Olivi, featuring My First Spaghetti Western, My First Yakuza Movie, and My First Hollywood Musical.
Enter on Instagram (for My First Yakuza Movie), Twitter (for My First Hollywood Musical), and/or Facebook (for My First Spaghetti Western) by Sunday, November 26 at 11:59pm Et. Those that enter on all three platforms...
- 11/20/2023
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
It’s not uncommon for seasoned filmmakers to, at some point, turn their lens towards their own love for cinema. Steven Spielberg recently treated us to The Fablemans and in the same year, Pan Nalin delves into his personal narrative to gift us Last Film Show, a tale about the essence of life in cinema and life through cinema. The heartwarming story unfolds in a rural corner of India, where traditional movie theaters are becoming scarce. It centers on a young boy named Samay (reminiscent of François Truffaut’s The Wild Child), who, despite lacking the means, is determined to create cinema of his own.…...
- 11/3/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Opening the 11th edition of the International Classic Film Market which runs alongside the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, the floor was given to Hella Wenders and Claire Brunel, the managing directors of the Foundation set up by Wim Wenders, the recipient of this year’s lifetime achievement Lumière Award.
Thanks to public and private funding, the non-profit foundation was able to buy back the rights to the German filmmaker’s entire body of work in 2012, which includes 52 films both long and short, with a very clear objective: To preserve, maintain and disseminate Wenders’ works, and make it permanently accessible to the public worldwide.
In a conversation earlier this year with Gianluca Farinelli, who heads the Bologna Film Archives and its film restoration lab, a world leader in film preservation, Wenders explained it simply.
“Movies are only living because there’s an audience that sees them. […] If anyone wants to...
Thanks to public and private funding, the non-profit foundation was able to buy back the rights to the German filmmaker’s entire body of work in 2012, which includes 52 films both long and short, with a very clear objective: To preserve, maintain and disseminate Wenders’ works, and make it permanently accessible to the public worldwide.
In a conversation earlier this year with Gianluca Farinelli, who heads the Bologna Film Archives and its film restoration lab, a world leader in film preservation, Wenders explained it simply.
“Movies are only living because there’s an audience that sees them. […] If anyone wants to...
- 10/18/2023
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Back in 1992 Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson — who had met the University of Texas in Dallas and were roomies — decided to make a movie. But after spending $10,000 and shooting 13 minutes of the crime caper comedy “Bottle Rocket,” they ran out of money. Eventually, the short and the full script made its way to Oscar-winning writer/director/producer James L. Brooks. It just so happened that Columbia had a deal with Brooks to finance a low-budget film selected by the filmmaker. And in 1996, the feature-length version of “Bottle Rocket” was released with Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson and James Caan. Though the film didn’t set the box office on fire, critics realized Anderson was a new and exciting cinematic voice.
Anderson has made 11 feature films — his latest “Asteroid City” came out earlier this year — and has been nominated seven times for an Oscar including three for screenplay, two for animated features,...
Anderson has made 11 feature films — his latest “Asteroid City” came out earlier this year — and has been nominated seven times for an Oscar including three for screenplay, two for animated features,...
- 10/6/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
François Truffaut goes deep and morbid adapting a Henry James story about a man who chooses to ‘devote himself to his beloved dead.’ He builds an altar-shrine to a departed bride and comrades that didn’t survive the Great War. A sympathetic woman considers aiding him, but his obsession keeps choosing life-negating directions. It’s a weird, morbid but highly understandable tale from the edge of the fantastic. The cinematographer is Néstor Almendros; the film is part of a 4-title François Truffaut Collection.
The Green Room
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
Part of Kino’s François Truffaut Collection, with The Wild Child, Small Change and The Man Who Loved Women
1978 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 94 min. / Street Date February 14, 2023 / La chanbre verte, The Vanishing Fiancée / available through Kino Lorber / 59.95
Starring: François Truffaut, Nathalie Baye, Jean Dast´, Patrick Maléon, Jeanne Lobre, Antoine Vitez, Jean-Pierre Moulin, Serge Rousseau, Annie Miller, Nathan Miller, Marcel Berbert.
Cinematography:...
The Green Room
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
Part of Kino’s François Truffaut Collection, with The Wild Child, Small Change and The Man Who Loved Women
1978 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 94 min. / Street Date February 14, 2023 / La chanbre verte, The Vanishing Fiancée / available through Kino Lorber / 59.95
Starring: François Truffaut, Nathalie Baye, Jean Dast´, Patrick Maléon, Jeanne Lobre, Antoine Vitez, Jean-Pierre Moulin, Serge Rousseau, Annie Miller, Nathan Miller, Marcel Berbert.
Cinematography:...
- 2/25/2023
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
When Charlie Chaplin passed away on Christmas Day in 1977, aged 88, he left the screenplay for a last unfinished film titled “The Freak,” a passion project about a young woman with wings named Serapha who is exploited in all kinds of ways.
Italy’s Cineteca di Bologna archives, which have long been in charge of the preservation and restoration of Charlie Chaplin’s oeuvre, has just published a book that for the first time unearths the final version of Chaplin’s complete “The Freak” script. The book also comprises previously unseen materials, such as preparatory notes, drawings, photos and stills from filmed rehearsals of the film that Bologna archives chief Gianluca Farinelli calls Chaplin’s “artistic testament.”
Born to a couple of British missionaries, Serapha winds up in Patagonia, where she becomes an angel-like figure at a pilgrimage site for invalids seeking to be cured; she is then kidnapped and brought...
Italy’s Cineteca di Bologna archives, which have long been in charge of the preservation and restoration of Charlie Chaplin’s oeuvre, has just published a book that for the first time unearths the final version of Chaplin’s complete “The Freak” script. The book also comprises previously unseen materials, such as preparatory notes, drawings, photos and stills from filmed rehearsals of the film that Bologna archives chief Gianluca Farinelli calls Chaplin’s “artistic testament.”
Born to a couple of British missionaries, Serapha winds up in Patagonia, where she becomes an angel-like figure at a pilgrimage site for invalids seeking to be cured; she is then kidnapped and brought...
- 12/25/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Bernardo Bertolucci leaves a cinematic legacy of great films, including “The Conformist” and “The Last Emperor,” which won nine Oscars including Best Picture and Director. However, his biggest hit would be inconceivable today. “Last Tango in Paris,” the X-rated drama starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, made more in its 1973 domestic release than the year’s James Bond entry, “Live and Let Die.” It was the year’s number 7 film, with an adjusted gross of $186 million — just a little below what Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” has amassed so far.
The mid-’70s were a high point for sophisticated, critic-influenced foreign films. Veteran directors like Bergman and Fellini remained significant players, while Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and Claude Chabrol regularly found success. However, “Last Tango” was a sensation; even today, among foreign films it’s outstripped only by “La Dolce Vita” ($245 million) and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” ($207 million...
The mid-’70s were a high point for sophisticated, critic-influenced foreign films. Veteran directors like Bergman and Fellini remained significant players, while Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and Claude Chabrol regularly found success. However, “Last Tango” was a sensation; even today, among foreign films it’s outstripped only by “La Dolce Vita” ($245 million) and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” ($207 million...
- 11/27/2018
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Amicus tries for class-act science fiction: lifelong coma sleeper Terence Stamp is revived as an ‘adult baby’ and must be educated in a medical psychology lab. But hey, Doctors Nigel Davenport and Robert Vaughn differ on how to raise children! The bouncing baby Cockney is soon an infantile Clockwork Orange, defying his minders and running away to see the world for himself. No, you can’t explain youth rebellion that easily…
The Mind of Mr. Soames
Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1970 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 98 min. / Street Date September 24, 2018 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £14.99
Starring: Terence Stamp, Robert Vaughn, Nigel Davenport, Christian Roberts, Donal Donnelly, Dan Jackson, Vickery Turner, Judy Parfitt, Pamela Moiseiweisch.
Cinematography: Billy Williams
Film Editor: Bill Blunden
Original Music: Michael Dress
Written by John Hale, Edward Simpson, from a book by Charles Eric Maine
Produced by Max Rosenberg & Milton Subotsky
Directed by Alan Cooke
I’m not sure that the...
The Mind of Mr. Soames
Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1970 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 98 min. / Street Date September 24, 2018 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £14.99
Starring: Terence Stamp, Robert Vaughn, Nigel Davenport, Christian Roberts, Donal Donnelly, Dan Jackson, Vickery Turner, Judy Parfitt, Pamela Moiseiweisch.
Cinematography: Billy Williams
Film Editor: Bill Blunden
Original Music: Michael Dress
Written by John Hale, Edward Simpson, from a book by Charles Eric Maine
Produced by Max Rosenberg & Milton Subotsky
Directed by Alan Cooke
I’m not sure that the...
- 9/25/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has set the Yorgos Lanthimos-directed The Favourite as the Opening Night selection for the 56th New York Film Festival. Deadline revealed last week that the film will make its world premiere at Venice, so this will be its New York premiere. That indicates it likely gets a showing at Telluride before the Nyff gala at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, September 28, 2018. Fox Searchlight Pictures releases it November 23. This becomes the second pic announced by Nyff, which recently set Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma to be the centerpiece selection. That film also will have its world premiere in Venice.
In The Favourite, the Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) and her servant Abigail Hill (Emma Stone) engage in a sexually charged fight to the death for the body and soul of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) at the height of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Said...
In The Favourite, the Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) and her servant Abigail Hill (Emma Stone) engage in a sexually charged fight to the death for the body and soul of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) at the height of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Said...
- 7/23/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Any list of the greatest foreign directors currently working today has to include Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The directors first rose to prominence in the mid 1990s with efforts like “The Promise” and “Rosetta,” and they’ve continued to excel in the 21st century with titles such as “The Kid With A Bike” and “Two Days One Night,” which earned Marion Cotillard a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
Read MoreThe Dardenne Brothers’ Next Film Will Be a Terrorism Drama
The directors will be back in U.S. theaters with the release of “The Unknown Girl” on September 8, which is a long time coming considering the film first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. While you continue to wait for their new movie, the brothers have provided their definitive list of 79 movies from the 20th century that you must see. La Cinetek published the list in full and is hosting many...
Read MoreThe Dardenne Brothers’ Next Film Will Be a Terrorism Drama
The directors will be back in U.S. theaters with the release of “The Unknown Girl” on September 8, which is a long time coming considering the film first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. While you continue to wait for their new movie, the brothers have provided their definitive list of 79 movies from the 20th century that you must see. La Cinetek published the list in full and is hosting many...
- 8/7/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Get crazy, get loud: Snooki is totally down for a Jersey Shore reboot! The wild child reality star and entrepreneur caught up with E! News' Sibley Scoles, where she revealed that a return to the shore isn't completely out of the question (with one major exception, of course). "Yes!" Snooki (real name Nicole Polizzi) dished, "but not for a long time because I have kids. Like for a week." Jersey Shore aired on MTV for six seasons between 2009-2012, documenting Snooki and the rest of her outspoken roommates partying their summers away by the beach. Earlier this year, co-stars JWoww, Deena Cortese, Vinny Guadagnino and Roger...
- 6/8/2017
- E! Online
If there's one thing Christmas fanatics can depend on year after year, it's Miley Cyrus and her unabashed passion for the holidays. The wild child pop songstress is no Grinch, and her massive collection of ugly Christmas sweaters is all the evidence skeptics need to see why she might actually want to relocate to the North Pole. But Miley's sweaters aren't just any tacky knits ordered on Amazon Prime the night before heading to a holiday shindig. The 24-year-old goes All. Out. with her Christmas gear, and it's actually pretty epic. Take a look at all of Miley's (and her pooches') festive ensembles for the perfect pre-holiday...
- 12/20/2016
- E! Online
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces Ava DuVernay’s documentary The 13th as the Opening Night selection of the 54th New York Film Festival (September 30 – October 16), making its world premiere at Alice Tully Hall. The 13th is the first-ever nonfiction work to open the festival, and will debut on Netflix and open in a limited theatrical run on October 7.
Chronicling the history of racial inequality in the United States, The 13th examines how our country has produced the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with the majority of those imprisoned being African-American. The title of DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing film refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution—“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States . . . ” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass incarceration and...
Chronicling the history of racial inequality in the United States, The 13th examines how our country has produced the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with the majority of those imprisoned being African-American. The title of DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing film refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution—“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States . . . ” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass incarceration and...
- 7/19/2016
- by Kellvin Chavez
- LRMonline.com
If the languid summer tentpole season has you down, fear not, as the promising fall slate is around the corner and today brings the first news of what we’ll see at the 2016 New York Film Festival. For the first time ever, a non-fiction film will open The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s festival: Ava DuVernay‘s The 13th. Her timely follow-up to Selma chronicles the history of racial inequality in the United States and will arrive on Netflix and in limited theaters shortly after its premiere at Nyff, on October 7.
“It is a true honor for me and my collaborators to premiere The 13th as the opening night selection of the New York Film Festival,” Ava DuVernay says. “This film was made as an answer to my own questions about how and why we have become the most incarcerated nation in the world, how and why we regard...
“It is a true honor for me and my collaborators to premiere The 13th as the opening night selection of the New York Film Festival,” Ava DuVernay says. “This film was made as an answer to my own questions about how and why we have become the most incarcerated nation in the world, how and why we regard...
- 7/19/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Here comes trouble, Genoa City.
TVLine has learned exclusively that All My Children and Days of Our Lives alum Chrishell Stause will next heat things up on CBS’ The Young and the Restless.
RelatedAnother World‘s Alicia Coppola Joins The Young and the Restless
Stause will recur as Bethany Bryant, a young woman who relishes the chance to push things to the limit and live dangerously as long as she’s not the one who gets burned. The wild child will find herself immersed in a prominent family’s juicy drama when she first appears on Wednesday, May 25.
RelatedCBS,...
TVLine has learned exclusively that All My Children and Days of Our Lives alum Chrishell Stause will next heat things up on CBS’ The Young and the Restless.
RelatedAnother World‘s Alicia Coppola Joins The Young and the Restless
Stause will recur as Bethany Bryant, a young woman who relishes the chance to push things to the limit and live dangerously as long as she’s not the one who gets burned. The wild child will find herself immersed in a prominent family’s juicy drama when she first appears on Wednesday, May 25.
RelatedCBS,...
- 4/20/2016
- TVLine.com
Let’s start with this obvious point: few cities need another repertory outlet less than New York City, which provides enough decent-to-outstanding options every week (or day) to fully occupy any caring customer. And so when a new theater, Metrograph, was announced this past August, the largely enthusiastic response — people taking note of a good location, a dedication to celluloid presentations and new independent releases, its strong selection of programmers, and other services (e.g. a restaurant and “cinema-dedicated bookshop”) — went hand-in-hand with some people’s skepticism, or at least a certain raising of the eyebrows. The question of necessity was premature, but such is the influx of available material that it should inevitably come up.
It’s safe to say their first selections silenced those skeptics. Metrograph’s slate is strong in a way that’s uncommon; one could say it’s exactly the sort that a cinephile with...
It’s safe to say their first selections silenced those skeptics. Metrograph’s slate is strong in a way that’s uncommon; one could say it’s exactly the sort that a cinephile with...
- 3/2/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Whatever you think of the original Pete's Dragon by Disney, forget that. David Lowery's new film is not that movie at all, as the first teaser trailer for the film should make abundantly clear. While I know the original has its fans, it's always felt like five or six different films mashed into one to me. It's got some strong production design, and by the time they made the movie, Disney had gotten very good at mixing live-action and animation, and there are some impressive sequences as a result. It's one of those films that a lot of people remember fondly precisely because they haven't seen it since childhood, and in many ways, the script by Lowery and Toby Halbrooks feels like what you would write if you specifically hadn't watched it again but were describing it to someone based on how it made you feel as a child.
- 2/22/2016
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
In 1962, two filmmakers met in a room at Universal Studios to discuss (what else?) cinema. Those directors were François Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock. (Providing assistance was French-language translator Helen Scott.) Together, they talked for over 50 hours, poring over every film the old master ever made. In 1967, Truffaut published what has universally come to be known as an essential text, titled Hitchcock/Truffaut, which contains rich and detailed transcripts of the extraordinary conversation.
Filmmaker Kent Jones‘ documentary about this historic meeting of the minds is now out, which inspired The Film Stage to look back at some of the forgotten, overlooked, and underrated films from these two beloved directors. The following ten titles contain all of the nuance, mystery and joy that we’ve come to expect from Hitchcock and Truffaut, with many overlapping themes and stylistic sensibilities.
Please enjoy the list, and don’t forget to suggest your own favorites in the comments.
Filmmaker Kent Jones‘ documentary about this historic meeting of the minds is now out, which inspired The Film Stage to look back at some of the forgotten, overlooked, and underrated films from these two beloved directors. The following ten titles contain all of the nuance, mystery and joy that we’ve come to expect from Hitchcock and Truffaut, with many overlapping themes and stylistic sensibilities.
Please enjoy the list, and don’t forget to suggest your own favorites in the comments.
- 12/7/2015
- by Tony Hinds
- The Film Stage
Jean Gruault, who wrote 25 screenplays between 1960 and 1995, has His screenplay for Alain Renais's Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) was nominated for an Oscar and a César and won a David di Donatello Award. Other notable works include Jacques Rivette's debut feature, Paris Belongs to Us (1960), and Rivette's The Nun (1966); Roberto Rossellini's Vanina Vanini (1961) and The Taking of Power by Louis Xiv (1966); Jules and Jim (1962), co-written with François Truffaut, as well as Truffaut's The Wild Child (1970), Two English Girls (1971) and The Green Room (1978); Jean-Luc Godard's Les carabiniers (1963); Chantal Akerman's The Eighties (1983) and Golden Eighties (1986); the scenario for Resnais's Love Unto Death (1984); and he worked with Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne on You're on My Mind (1992). » - David Hudson...
- 6/9/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Jean Gruault, who wrote 25 screenplays between 1960 and 1995, has His screenplay for Alain Renais's Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) was nominated for an Oscar and a César and won a David di Donatello Award. Other notable works include Jacques Rivette's debut feature, Paris Belongs to Us (1960), and Rivette's The Nun (1966); Roberto Rossellini's Vanina Vanini (1961) and The Taking of Power by Louis Xiv (1966); Jules and Jim (1962), co-written with François Truffaut, as well as Truffaut's The Wild Child (1970), Two English Girls (1971) and The Green Room (1978); Jean-Luc Godard's Les carabiniers (1963); Chantal Akerman's The Eighties (1983) and Golden Eighties (1986); the scenario for Resnais's Love Unto Death (1984); and he worked with Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne on You're on My Mind (1992). » - David Hudson...
- 6/9/2015
- Keyframe
“A 19th Century Stalker”
By Raymond Benson
The youngest daughter of the great French author, Victor Hugo, was a victim of schizophrenia. Although she was devastatingly beautiful, history tells us that Adèle Hugo was seriously disturbed.
Around the time of America’s Civil War, Adèle became fixated on a British soldier, one Lieutenant Pinson. She followed him across the Atlantic to Nova Scotia, where he was stationed, for she was convinced that he loved her and would marry her. In fact, the couple had experienced a brief relationship in England (while Victor Hugo was living in Guernsey, in exile from France), but Pinson ultimately rejected Adèle and wanted no more to do with her. Even though he was obviously a rakish cad, the girl became obsessed with the man and went to great lengths to pursue him.
These days we would call it stalking.
François Truffaut’s The Story of Adèle H.
By Raymond Benson
The youngest daughter of the great French author, Victor Hugo, was a victim of schizophrenia. Although she was devastatingly beautiful, history tells us that Adèle Hugo was seriously disturbed.
Around the time of America’s Civil War, Adèle became fixated on a British soldier, one Lieutenant Pinson. She followed him across the Atlantic to Nova Scotia, where he was stationed, for she was convinced that he loved her and would marry her. In fact, the couple had experienced a brief relationship in England (while Victor Hugo was living in Guernsey, in exile from France), but Pinson ultimately rejected Adèle and wanted no more to do with her. Even though he was obviously a rakish cad, the girl became obsessed with the man and went to great lengths to pursue him.
These days we would call it stalking.
François Truffaut’s The Story of Adèle H.
- 4/24/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
“Is cinema more important than life?” That question was once asked by Francois Truffaut, the former Cahiers du cinema critic and pioneering member of the French New Wave who directed over twenty-three feature films over the course of his long and fruitful career. His pictures range from coming-of-age dramas (the immortal “400 Blows”), jazzy gangster noirs (“Shoot the Piano Player!”), evocative slices of 1960’s Bohemian life (“Jules and Jim”), light comedy (“Stolen Kisses,” “Bed and Board”), fantastical childhood yarns (“Small Change,” “The Wild Child”) and many more. His understanding of the language of cinema and how genre could ultimately be utilized to service a story that addressed universal concerns was eclipsed only by his deep and unrelenting love for his characters. Truffaut was, above all, a consummate humanist and his devotion to sincerity above all things has put him at a point of contrast with many of his contemporaries from the...
- 10/14/2014
- by Nicholas Laskin
- The Playlist
Women directors make up 70% of competition films.
Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Adff) (Oct 23-Nov 1) has announced the selection for this year’s Emirates Film Competition (Efc).
The upcoming edition of the competition features a total of 53 films, of which 37 films are directed by women, across a variety of genres.
The line up also features films by Emirati filmmakers such as Nasser Al Tamimi’s Female Scream, Nasser Al-Yaqoubi’s Haneen, Hassan Kiyani’s Marwan The Boxer and Ali Mostafa’s musical Rise. In addition, Sarah Al Agroobi’s Super Lochal is among the selected films.
Desire by Hala Matar (Bahrain, starring Johnny Knoxville) has been selected for Adff’s Short Film Competition along with Koshk, from Emirati director Abdullah Al-Kaabi. These two films will participate in both Efc and the Short Film Competition.
Highly anticipated films from the Gcc region include Now Showing directed by Abdullah Al Daihani (Kuwait), Rainbow directed by Mahmood Al-Shaikh (Bahrain) and 623 directed...
Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Adff) (Oct 23-Nov 1) has announced the selection for this year’s Emirates Film Competition (Efc).
The upcoming edition of the competition features a total of 53 films, of which 37 films are directed by women, across a variety of genres.
The line up also features films by Emirati filmmakers such as Nasser Al Tamimi’s Female Scream, Nasser Al-Yaqoubi’s Haneen, Hassan Kiyani’s Marwan The Boxer and Ali Mostafa’s musical Rise. In addition, Sarah Al Agroobi’s Super Lochal is among the selected films.
Desire by Hala Matar (Bahrain, starring Johnny Knoxville) has been selected for Adff’s Short Film Competition along with Koshk, from Emirati director Abdullah Al-Kaabi. These two films will participate in both Efc and the Short Film Competition.
Highly anticipated films from the Gcc region include Now Showing directed by Abdullah Al Daihani (Kuwait), Rainbow directed by Mahmood Al-Shaikh (Bahrain) and 623 directed...
- 9/22/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
In advance of the Sundance Film Festival 2014, we sent out a questionnaire to filmmakers with films in competition asking them a variety of questions about their projects. We also asked them if any films inspire them. They cited classic documentaries including "The Civil War" and "Grey Gardens," as well as films by David Lynch, Woody Allen, Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick, Werner Herzog, Martin Scorsese, Francois Truffaut, Wim Wenders, Robert Altman, Terry Gilliam, Ingmar Bergman and The Coen Brothers. Several films show up as influences more than once, including "The 400 Blows," "The Graduate" and, oddly enough, "The Bad News Bears." Here are the filmmakers' responses (slightly edited, in some cases, for length): A.J. Edwards ("The Better Angels"): The work of Terry Malick, to whom I owe so much. Sergeant York, Mrs. Miniver, How Green Was My Valley, Pather Panchali, The 400 Blows, The Wild Child, Kes, Ken Burns' The Civil War.
- 1/28/2014
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
She can’t stop! Miley’s party persona is no act. The wild child of pop music hit up Beacher’s Madhouse in La, and an eyewitness tells HollywoodLife.com that the star’s partying was out of control!
Miley Cyrus is single and ready to mingle! The Bangerz beauty is done with Liam Hemsworth, but she didn’t show any signs of a broken heart when she partied in Hollywood on October 16. An insider at the VIP club where Miley let loose tells HollywoodLife.com that Miley was surrounded by boys — and even got physical with one of the club’s performers! Read on for Exclusive details.
Miley Cyrus Twerks While Surrounded By Guys On Wild Night Out
Liam who? The Hunger Games hunk was the last thing on Miley’s mind during a crazy night out on Oct. 16! A clubgoer who partied alongside Miley at Beacher’s Madhouse...
Miley Cyrus is single and ready to mingle! The Bangerz beauty is done with Liam Hemsworth, but she didn’t show any signs of a broken heart when she partied in Hollywood on October 16. An insider at the VIP club where Miley let loose tells HollywoodLife.com that Miley was surrounded by boys — and even got physical with one of the club’s performers! Read on for Exclusive details.
Miley Cyrus Twerks While Surrounded By Guys On Wild Night Out
Liam who? The Hunger Games hunk was the last thing on Miley’s mind during a crazy night out on Oct. 16! A clubgoer who partied alongside Miley at Beacher’s Madhouse...
- 10/18/2013
- by tierneyhl
- HollywoodLife
1973’s Badlands marked the first feature film from writer/director Terrence Malick and it squarely put him on the path to his current cinematic sainthood. Over a forty year career and a scant six feature films — three more are on the way — Malick has established a well deserved mystique as the closest thing America has produced to a true European style auteur. Frankly, no one else is even close. Ironically, one could make a case that the artistic influence of this Oklahoma farm boy has its deepest resonance far beyond America’s shores. Directors such as Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Ceylon and Mexico’s Carlos Reygadas reverently evoke Malick’s pantheistic zen, while Thailand’s Apitchapong Weerasathakul’s slow, stately dolly shots of weeds and bushes make him perhaps Malick’s most direct artistic descendent.
Back in the U.S., the cult of Malick has grown to such glowing stature...
Back in the U.S., the cult of Malick has grown to such glowing stature...
- 3/19/2013
- by David Anderson
- IONCINEMA.com
From The Wild Child to Nell, the movies have long told stories of children found in the woods raised by animals but the title creature that rears the little girls in the new horror film Mama is meaner than a snake and uglier than Martin Lawrence in drag. Moviegoers looking for a scary time at the movies without the gore could do worse than Mama, a PG13 shocker from producer Guillermo del Toro. It’s an engrossing, if modest exercise in thrills that works hard to present an intelligent and unique premise. Mama opens strong but falls apart in its underdeveloped second half with scares manufactured from cliches and an overdramatic climax.
Mama is a throwback fairy-tale style horror film with a less-is-more approach to its violence, yet it opens ugly with a man abducting his two young daughters and preparing to shoot them in the back of their heads.
Mama is a throwback fairy-tale style horror film with a less-is-more approach to its violence, yet it opens ugly with a man abducting his two young daughters and preparing to shoot them in the back of their heads.
- 1/18/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It's a dilemma all music lovers face: narrowing down a list of your all-time favorite albums. Even restricting myself to just the past year, it's quite a challenge... mainly because it's been a damn fine year for dark, spooky and horror-related music. Not only have some well-known bands rediscovered their mojo or improved on an already strong track record, but I've also discovered dozens of new artists who rock the darker, more obscure corners of the music biz, and many of them belong on this list right alongside their more high-profile peers. I'm also pretty sure you'll be hearing a lot more from them in 2013 and beyond. Bear in mind a couple of things before diving in: this list is alphabetical, and not necessarily in order of preference (because I always have a shit time trying to settle on my favorite anything); and this list is confined to horror-related or darker-themed music,...
- 12/28/2012
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
Lindsay Lohan is back on screen for the first time in five years – as Liz Taylor. It's a combination that shows the contrast between a real star and a celebrity better known for her rehab
On Sunday night, in the self-proclaimed "television event of the year", Lindsay Lohan will appear in Liz & Dick, playing Elizabeth Taylor in a movie for the Us cable channel Lifetime about her love affair with Richard Burton.
This is Lohan's first starring role in five years, but the fascination surrounding Liz & Dick has little to do with any hope of a great performance. This, it seems, is the first movie to be explicitly marketed around the disastrous life of its own star, making it an indictment of contemporary celebrity as funny as it is upsetting.
A teaser for the film begins with overlaid clips of TV news audio ("She's young and she's got a bad rap", "Lindsay Lohan,...
On Sunday night, in the self-proclaimed "television event of the year", Lindsay Lohan will appear in Liz & Dick, playing Elizabeth Taylor in a movie for the Us cable channel Lifetime about her love affair with Richard Burton.
This is Lohan's first starring role in five years, but the fascination surrounding Liz & Dick has little to do with any hope of a great performance. This, it seems, is the first movie to be explicitly marketed around the disastrous life of its own star, making it an indictment of contemporary celebrity as funny as it is upsetting.
A teaser for the film begins with overlaid clips of TV news audio ("She's young and she's got a bad rap", "Lindsay Lohan,...
- 11/25/2012
- by Hermione Hoby
- The Guardian - Film News
Review by Dane Marti
The St. Louis Film Festival is showing some superb examples of Japanese Animation this year’s animation known around the world as Anime. Directed by Keiichi Sato, this is easily one of the most visually opulent films I’ve ever seen. Anime never ceases to amaze me. Perhaps to some wise folks, it is simply silly cartoons for kids, but I feel that this genre and style is continuing to grow exponentially.
The background of the film: Between 1459 and 1461, Japan has a massive and ugly Civil War. Yes, I looked up those dates. There was also famine and desolation across the land, similar in many respects to the European Medieval Ages as well. In order to enjoy the film, and watch the young orphan mature as a person, you don’t need to know all the history, but it does help to understand the setting in which the story unfolds.
The St. Louis Film Festival is showing some superb examples of Japanese Animation this year’s animation known around the world as Anime. Directed by Keiichi Sato, this is easily one of the most visually opulent films I’ve ever seen. Anime never ceases to amaze me. Perhaps to some wise folks, it is simply silly cartoons for kids, but I feel that this genre and style is continuing to grow exponentially.
The background of the film: Between 1459 and 1461, Japan has a massive and ugly Civil War. Yes, I looked up those dates. There was also famine and desolation across the land, similar in many respects to the European Medieval Ages as well. In order to enjoy the film, and watch the young orphan mature as a person, you don’t need to know all the history, but it does help to understand the setting in which the story unfolds.
- 11/16/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
We're back with another installment of Radio 66.6! This week features the latest news, music, videos and tour dates from the likes of Queensryche, All That Remains, Children of Bodom, The Offspring, Every Time I Die, Gojira, The Chariot, Stone Temple Pilots and more. Don't touch that dial!
News
Queensryche have parted ways with vocalist Geoff Tate. Tate has since signed with InsideOut Music and is working on a solo album to be released in the fall.
All That Remains will release a new album entitled A War You Can Not Win in September via Razor & Tie/Prosthetic.
Children of Bodom have signed a worldwide deal with Nuclear Blast Records. The Finnish metal band will release a new album in 2013.
Just Like Vinyl have signed to Superball Music. The band features Thomas Erak formerly of The Fall of Troy. Their new album is due out in the late summer.
Gallows new...
News
Queensryche have parted ways with vocalist Geoff Tate. Tate has since signed with InsideOut Music and is working on a solo album to be released in the fall.
All That Remains will release a new album entitled A War You Can Not Win in September via Razor & Tie/Prosthetic.
Children of Bodom have signed a worldwide deal with Nuclear Blast Records. The Finnish metal band will release a new album in 2013.
Just Like Vinyl have signed to Superball Music. The band features Thomas Erak formerly of The Fall of Troy. Their new album is due out in the late summer.
Gallows new...
- 6/25/2012
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- DreadCentral.com
We're back with the latest installment of Radio 66.6! This week features news, music, videos, tour dates and more from the likes of Marilyn Manson, Shai Hulud, Vampires Everywhere, Lostprophets, Ignite, P.O.D., Terror, Godsmack, Gojira, Taproot and more. Don't touch that dial!
News
Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amplification, passed away this week at the age of 88. His amps have been used by some of the biggest names in rock music and continue to be popular to this day. May he rest in peace.
Senses Fail will release a greatest hits album entitled Follow Your Bliss: The Best of Senses Fail on June 19 via Staple Records. It will include a bonus Ep with four new songs. The tracklisting can be found here.
A Day to Remember frontman Jeremy McKinnon is in the studio recording new music. No word on what exactly he's working on, but rumors suggest that it may be solo material.
News
Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amplification, passed away this week at the age of 88. His amps have been used by some of the biggest names in rock music and continue to be popular to this day. May he rest in peace.
Senses Fail will release a greatest hits album entitled Follow Your Bliss: The Best of Senses Fail on June 19 via Staple Records. It will include a bonus Ep with four new songs. The tracklisting can be found here.
A Day to Remember frontman Jeremy McKinnon is in the studio recording new music. No word on what exactly he's working on, but rumors suggest that it may be solo material.
- 4/9/2012
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- DreadCentral.com
French film director and close associate of François Truffaut
The film director Claude Miller, who has died aged 70 after a long illness, was continually dogged by comparisons to his friend and mentor François Truffaut. Hardly a review of his films failed to mention Truffaut in some way or another. This came about for various reasons. Miller was Truffaut's production manager on several occasions and made subtle references to the older director's work in many of his own films, almost always mentioning him in interviews. He had a small role in Truffaut's L'Enfant Sauvage (The Wild Child, 1970) and adapted La Petite Voleuse (The Little Thief, 1988) from a 30-page screenplay that Truffaut had written a few years before his death.
When Truffaut was once asked whether he had started a school of directors, he denied it. "These people are more influenced by other directors than myself. If Claude Miller has points in common with me,...
The film director Claude Miller, who has died aged 70 after a long illness, was continually dogged by comparisons to his friend and mentor François Truffaut. Hardly a review of his films failed to mention Truffaut in some way or another. This came about for various reasons. Miller was Truffaut's production manager on several occasions and made subtle references to the older director's work in many of his own films, almost always mentioning him in interviews. He had a small role in Truffaut's L'Enfant Sauvage (The Wild Child, 1970) and adapted La Petite Voleuse (The Little Thief, 1988) from a 30-page screenplay that Truffaut had written a few years before his death.
When Truffaut was once asked whether he had started a school of directors, he denied it. "These people are more influenced by other directors than myself. If Claude Miller has points in common with me,...
- 4/6/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
The great New Wave film-maker François Truffaut would have been 80 today. As he's honoured with a Google doodle, Xan Brooks salutes one of cinema's most sorely missed
Apologies to Bob Marley, Ronald Reagan, Eva Braun, and all the other dead luminaries who celebrated their birthdays on February 6. Today, it transpires, is not their time. Instead, the world's biggest internet search engine has opted to honour the 80th anniversary of the late François Truffaut via the medium of the Google doodle. When Sibelius made his crack about no one ever erecting a statue to a critic, he clearly reckoned without the rise of the Google doodle.
Arguably the foremost of the New Wave film-makers, Truffaut was also the first to go: killed by a brain tumour at the age of 52 after a life spent in perpetual motion. In his teens he had been the juvenile tearaway and in his 20s a crusading film critic,...
Apologies to Bob Marley, Ronald Reagan, Eva Braun, and all the other dead luminaries who celebrated their birthdays on February 6. Today, it transpires, is not their time. Instead, the world's biggest internet search engine has opted to honour the 80th anniversary of the late François Truffaut via the medium of the Google doodle. When Sibelius made his crack about no one ever erecting a statue to a critic, he clearly reckoned without the rise of the Google doodle.
Arguably the foremost of the New Wave film-makers, Truffaut was also the first to go: killed by a brain tumour at the age of 52 after a life spent in perpetual motion. In his teens he had been the juvenile tearaway and in his 20s a crusading film critic,...
- 2/6/2012
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
For its doodle marking what would have been François Truffaut's 80th birthday today, Google needed an iconic image. Not Catherine Deneuve or Gérard Depardieu in The Last Metro (1980) or Isabelle Adjani in The Story of Adele H. (1975) or even Jeanne Moreau in Jules and Jim (1962), but rather, and most obviously, the young Antoine Doinel on the beach. The doodle's not exactly the famous final freeze frame but nevertheless very recognizably the young Jean-Pierre Léaud in what would be both the director's and the actor's debut feature, The 400 Blows (1959).
"It's fascinating to consider the similarities and the differences between François and Antoine," wrote Kent Jones in a 2003 essay for Criterion on Antoine and Colette (1962), the short film in which Antoine, all of 17, falls in love for the first time. Kent Jones notes that Truffaut has shifted the "cultural meeting ground" of the young lovers "from the cinematheque," where Truffaut,...
"It's fascinating to consider the similarities and the differences between François and Antoine," wrote Kent Jones in a 2003 essay for Criterion on Antoine and Colette (1962), the short film in which Antoine, all of 17, falls in love for the first time. Kent Jones notes that Truffaut has shifted the "cultural meeting ground" of the young lovers "from the cinematheque," where Truffaut,...
- 2/6/2012
- MUBI
What could be worse than losing one's fortune or fame? How about losing one's children? Victoria Grayson's kids have been slowly slipping away all season and with the information uncovered in "Infamy," it looks like it will only get worse. But let's recap the rest of the episode before we get to the big secret most of us saw coming.
The Destruction of Mason Treadwell. As Nolan put it, "What a tool." Between the arrogance and the ridiculous bow ties, how could anyone like that man? Then, to find out that he lied to a desperate, grieving child.The spineless little weasel gained young Amanda's trust only to abandon her for a pay day from the Graysons.
Amanda was a poor, scared, little girl who was betrayed over and over again by the adults in her life. It's those scenes that convince me it's long past time for someone to pay.
The Destruction of Mason Treadwell. As Nolan put it, "What a tool." Between the arrogance and the ridiculous bow ties, how could anyone like that man? Then, to find out that he lied to a desperate, grieving child.The spineless little weasel gained young Amanda's trust only to abandon her for a pay day from the Graysons.
Amanda was a poor, scared, little girl who was betrayed over and over again by the adults in her life. It's those scenes that convince me it's long past time for someone to pay.
- 1/12/2012
- by christine@tvfanatic.com (C. Orlando)
- TVfanatic
Steven Spielberg is talking about the best piece of advice he ever got. It came from François Truffaut, the nouvelle vague director Spielberg cast in his 1977 sci-fi classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He'd seen him perform in his own 1970 film, The Wild Child, and wrote the role of the French government scientist with him in mind. "He even called me a 'wild child'," he says, a smile stretching across his instantly recognisable bespectacled face. "He told me, 'You're a kid. You must work with children. I loved the experience myself. I'd recommend it to you. You must go off and make a movie with kids.' And I never forgot that advice."...
- 1/11/2012
- The Independent - Film
Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films being made available by Netflix for instant streaming. Important Note: There may be some films that do not become available on the specified dates. This is merely a report of the most accurate release dates I can find, but is not directly confirmed by Netflix themselves.
American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010)
Streaming Available: 06/29/2011
Synopsis: Since his tragic death from cancer at age 32, comedian Bill Hicks’s legend and stature have only grown, and this unique documentary tells his story, blending live footage, interviews and animation to fill in the details of a life cut short. A comic’s comic and unflagging critic of hypocrisy and cultural emptiness, Hicks was one of a kind, a Lenny Bruce for the late 20th century,...
American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010)
Streaming Available: 06/29/2011
Synopsis: Since his tragic death from cancer at age 32, comedian Bill Hicks’s legend and stature have only grown, and this unique documentary tells his story, blending live footage, interviews and animation to fill in the details of a life cut short. A comic’s comic and unflagging critic of hypocrisy and cultural emptiness, Hicks was one of a kind, a Lenny Bruce for the late 20th century,...
- 6/28/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The wild child duo emerge from their night out covered in drink stains and Very disheveled — they really are the life of the party!
Prince Harry and his cousin Princess Eugenie went out on May 28 to the chic London nightclub Public, and when they emerged at 2:30 a.m., they definitely looked like they had been partying hard all night!
Harry, 26, and Eugenie, 21, were dressed casually and were Covered with stains from the bar, the Daily Mail reports. Harry’s shirtsleeves were dampened with spilled drinks, and poor Eugenie had spilled all down the front of her blue mini-dress! When they stumbled out, they both looked a little worse-for-wear — we can only imagine the fun they had inside!
Can We party with them too? They sound like a blast!
– William Earl
Get More On The Royal Wedding:
See Kate’S Gorgeous Wedding Dress! Victoria & David Beckham, Elton John & More Royal Wedding Guests!
Prince Harry and his cousin Princess Eugenie went out on May 28 to the chic London nightclub Public, and when they emerged at 2:30 a.m., they definitely looked like they had been partying hard all night!
Harry, 26, and Eugenie, 21, were dressed casually and were Covered with stains from the bar, the Daily Mail reports. Harry’s shirtsleeves were dampened with spilled drinks, and poor Eugenie had spilled all down the front of her blue mini-dress! When they stumbled out, they both looked a little worse-for-wear — we can only imagine the fun they had inside!
Can We party with them too? They sound like a blast!
– William Earl
Get More On The Royal Wedding:
See Kate’S Gorgeous Wedding Dress! Victoria & David Beckham, Elton John & More Royal Wedding Guests!
- 5/29/2011
- by William Earl
- HollywoodLife
François Truffaut believed that artworks resemble their makers. As the BFI presents a retrospective of his films, it is clear that the man who made them was the most humane of directors
It seems a cliché that a film might change your life. Yet a film by the French director François Truffaut changed mine. Having just heard of how, in the 1950s in Northern Ireland, a child was brought up in a hen house, I watched L'Enfant sauvage (Wild Child) (1969) late one night on BBC2. It presented the story of Victor, a young boy discovered, in the years following the French revolution, living wild and alone in the woods of France. The film so mesmerised and moved me that I began researching a book on Victor and children like him.
In L'Enfant sauvage, Truffaut himself played Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard, the young man who educated the wild boy, teaching him language,...
It seems a cliché that a film might change your life. Yet a film by the French director François Truffaut changed mine. Having just heard of how, in the 1950s in Northern Ireland, a child was brought up in a hen house, I watched L'Enfant sauvage (Wild Child) (1969) late one night on BBC2. It presented the story of Victor, a young boy discovered, in the years following the French revolution, living wild and alone in the woods of France. The film so mesmerised and moved me that I began researching a book on Victor and children like him.
In L'Enfant sauvage, Truffaut himself played Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard, the young man who educated the wild boy, teaching him language,...
- 2/19/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Our man in Utah, Kabelson, has just turned in a Q&A transcription for another one of the most controversial films ever shown at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, Lucky McKee's The Woman (review here). Dig it!
In Attendance - Lucky McKee (Director), Andrew van den Houten (Producer).
McKee: Hello everyone. (Applause) Any questions?
Q: Where did you find Polly and did she do all of her own voice?
McKee: Yeah, that is all production sound. That’s all her.
Van den Houten: Polly and I had worked on the movie Offspring. When I finished directing it, I was blown away by her performance in the movie. So immediately I was like, “Wow, she needs to have a movie around her”, but I want someone amazing to direct this film. I called Lucky, and said, “Come to New York; I want you to see this film I just made”. Jack Ketchum,...
In Attendance - Lucky McKee (Director), Andrew van den Houten (Producer).
McKee: Hello everyone. (Applause) Any questions?
Q: Where did you find Polly and did she do all of her own voice?
McKee: Yeah, that is all production sound. That’s all her.
Van den Houten: Polly and I had worked on the movie Offspring. When I finished directing it, I was blown away by her performance in the movie. So immediately I was like, “Wow, she needs to have a movie around her”, but I want someone amazing to direct this film. I called Lucky, and said, “Come to New York; I want you to see this film I just made”. Jack Ketchum,...
- 1/29/2011
- by kalebson
- DreadCentral.com
Nomadic Mc spit heat in 2010, conjuring the 'Ghost of Christopher Wallace' with Diddy, earning a nod from Nas and a deal with Jay-z's Roc Nation.
By Jayson Rodriguez
Jay Electronica
Photo: Gus Stewart/ Redferns/ MTV News
Jay Electronica is an Mc shrouded in as much mystery as his densely packed rhymes.
Raised in New Orleans, with stops in Detroit, Philadelphia and Brooklyn, which the rapper now calls home, the literary-leaning rapper arrived on the scene as a fully formed adult. His lyrics prove the point with references to everything from the JFK assassination ("My World (Nas Salute)") to Kurt Vonnegut ("Exhibit A (Transformations)"). But with few details in terms of backstory beyond his hard-to-find rhymes, his narrative is being scripted in real time for the hip-hop community.
The start of that tale was officially birthed this year with Jay's breakout hit, the Just Blaze-backed "Exhibit C." With an elaborate rhyme pattern and illustrious production,...
By Jayson Rodriguez
Jay Electronica
Photo: Gus Stewart/ Redferns/ MTV News
Jay Electronica is an Mc shrouded in as much mystery as his densely packed rhymes.
Raised in New Orleans, with stops in Detroit, Philadelphia and Brooklyn, which the rapper now calls home, the literary-leaning rapper arrived on the scene as a fully formed adult. His lyrics prove the point with references to everything from the JFK assassination ("My World (Nas Salute)") to Kurt Vonnegut ("Exhibit A (Transformations)"). But with few details in terms of backstory beyond his hard-to-find rhymes, his narrative is being scripted in real time for the hip-hop community.
The start of that tale was officially birthed this year with Jay's breakout hit, the Just Blaze-backed "Exhibit C." With an elaborate rhyme pattern and illustrious production,...
- 12/15/2010
- MTV Music News
Nomadic Mc spit heat in 2010, conjuring the 'Ghost of Christopher Wallace' with Diddy, earning a nod from Nas and a deal with Jay-z's Roc Nation.
By Jayson Rodriguez
Jay Electronica
Photo: Gus Stewart/ Redferns/ MTV News
Jay Electronica is an Mc shrouded in as much mystery as his densely packed rhymes.
Raised in New Orleans, with stops in Detroit, Philadelphia and Brooklyn, which the rapper now calls home, the literary-leaning rapper arrived on the scene as a fully formed adult. His lyrics prove the point with references to everything from the JFK assassination ("My World (Nas Salute)") to Kurt Vonnegut ("Exhibit A (Transformations)"). But with few details in terms of backstory beyond his hard-to-find rhymes, his narrative is being scripted in real time for the hip-hop community.
The start of that tale was officially birthed this year with Jay's breakout hit, the Just Blaze-backed "Exhibit C." With an elaborate rhyme pattern and illustrious production,...
By Jayson Rodriguez
Jay Electronica
Photo: Gus Stewart/ Redferns/ MTV News
Jay Electronica is an Mc shrouded in as much mystery as his densely packed rhymes.
Raised in New Orleans, with stops in Detroit, Philadelphia and Brooklyn, which the rapper now calls home, the literary-leaning rapper arrived on the scene as a fully formed adult. His lyrics prove the point with references to everything from the JFK assassination ("My World (Nas Salute)") to Kurt Vonnegut ("Exhibit A (Transformations)"). But with few details in terms of backstory beyond his hard-to-find rhymes, his narrative is being scripted in real time for the hip-hop community.
The start of that tale was officially birthed this year with Jay's breakout hit, the Just Blaze-backed "Exhibit C." With an elaborate rhyme pattern and illustrious production,...
- 12/15/2010
- MTV Music News
0204 A Useful Life (Federico Veiroj, Uruguay)
Should we be worried, or at the very least troubled and sad, that the amount of melancholy homages to dying film theaters keep coming? (Or perhaps even sadder, the films either die at the box office or aren’t even picked up for distribution, some kind of horrible irony.) Federico Veiroj’s wonderfully trim and sensitive record of working at a place—and that place happens to be a cinema—is another elegiac entry in a micro-genre being slowly carved out by such filmmakers as Tsai Ming-liang (Goodbye, Dragon Inn) and Lisandro Alonso (Fantomas) which explore the soon-to-be-abandoned spaces that will soon be inhabited only by the ghosts of cinema. Distinctly ungeeky in its cinephilia, A Useful Life, like the aforementioned films, upends the sentimental nostalgia of so many homage a cinema by being itself rather than a love letter to something else. The director’s personality is felt,...
Should we be worried, or at the very least troubled and sad, that the amount of melancholy homages to dying film theaters keep coming? (Or perhaps even sadder, the films either die at the box office or aren’t even picked up for distribution, some kind of horrible irony.) Federico Veiroj’s wonderfully trim and sensitive record of working at a place—and that place happens to be a cinema—is another elegiac entry in a micro-genre being slowly carved out by such filmmakers as Tsai Ming-liang (Goodbye, Dragon Inn) and Lisandro Alonso (Fantomas) which explore the soon-to-be-abandoned spaces that will soon be inhabited only by the ghosts of cinema. Distinctly ungeeky in its cinephilia, A Useful Life, like the aforementioned films, upends the sentimental nostalgia of so many homage a cinema by being itself rather than a love letter to something else. The director’s personality is felt,...
- 9/13/2010
- MUBI
Actor and musician known as Bruno S, chosen by Werner Herzog to play social misfits in his films
Werner Herzog is a singular film director, drawn to bizarre characters and situations in strange surroundings, with a preoccupation with outsiders who refuse to conform to a limited social structure. So it was not surprising that he was drawn to Bruno Schleinstein, known and credited only as Bruno S, who has died of heart failure aged 78. Even if one had no idea of Bruno's history, one could not fail to sense that there was something extra-artistic in his performances in the title roles of the two films he made with Herzog: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für Sich und Gott Gegen Alle, 1974) and Stroszek (1977). With his jerky gestures, staccato speech and staring eyes, there seemed to be a thin line between the actor and the characters.
Bruno S, who never knew who his father was,...
Werner Herzog is a singular film director, drawn to bizarre characters and situations in strange surroundings, with a preoccupation with outsiders who refuse to conform to a limited social structure. So it was not surprising that he was drawn to Bruno Schleinstein, known and credited only as Bruno S, who has died of heart failure aged 78. Even if one had no idea of Bruno's history, one could not fail to sense that there was something extra-artistic in his performances in the title roles of the two films he made with Herzog: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für Sich und Gott Gegen Alle, 1974) and Stroszek (1977). With his jerky gestures, staccato speech and staring eyes, there seemed to be a thin line between the actor and the characters.
Bruno S, who never knew who his father was,...
- 8/22/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Topol in Joseph Losey‘s Galileo (top); Maggie Cheung in Zhang Yimou‘s Hero (middle); Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut in Truffaut’s L’Enfant sauvage / The Wild Child (bottom) According to London’s bfi Southbank site, filmmaker Joseph Losey, a victim of the Red Scare who settled in England in the ’50s, had already directed Bertold Brecht’s play Galileo in 1947 in Los Angeles. In the 1974 film version to be screened on Friday, June 18, Academy Award nominee Topol (for Fiddler on the Roof, 1971) replaces Charles Laughton in the title role. The bfi site adds that Galileo was made for the American Film Theater, thus retaining "much of its Brechtian theatricality, including a revolving set and Hanns Eisler’s music, to underscore the various points made in its debate about the clash between scientific theory and religious dogma. The cast [including Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Tom Conti, and Michael Lonsdale] is particularly impressive." Also on [...]...
- 6/17/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Mosaïques Festival Of World Culture, London
World cinema festivals might be more common these days, but this one shows you the parts of the globe British festivals don't reach, ie: the French post-colonial landscape. There's quality cinema here from north and west Africa, south-east Asia and the Middle East, much of it produced with French support. Whisper With The Wind is set in Iraq, mind you, and deals with a clandestine radio messenger, while Brazil's The Famous And The Dead is a dreamy Bob Dylan-themed thriller. Closer to home there's London River, in which Brenda Blethyn and Malian actor Sotigui Kouyaté play parents brought together by the 7/7 bombings.
Ciné Lumière, SW7, Thu to 12 Jun, visit institut-francais.org.uk
Science On Film, London
Which would you rather watch, Craig Venter in a lab coat spending 10 years creating the world's first synthetic life form, or James Whale's crazed Dr Frankenstein screaming,...
World cinema festivals might be more common these days, but this one shows you the parts of the globe British festivals don't reach, ie: the French post-colonial landscape. There's quality cinema here from north and west Africa, south-east Asia and the Middle East, much of it produced with French support. Whisper With The Wind is set in Iraq, mind you, and deals with a clandestine radio messenger, while Brazil's The Famous And The Dead is a dreamy Bob Dylan-themed thriller. Closer to home there's London River, in which Brenda Blethyn and Malian actor Sotigui Kouyaté play parents brought together by the 7/7 bombings.
Ciné Lumière, SW7, Thu to 12 Jun, visit institut-francais.org.uk
Science On Film, London
Which would you rather watch, Craig Venter in a lab coat spending 10 years creating the world's first synthetic life form, or James Whale's crazed Dr Frankenstein screaming,...
- 5/28/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Thanks to popular British film and television, there is a perception outside Britain that roaming amidst our green fields and cobbled streets are delicate, silver-spooned beauties and post-Henry Eliza Doolittles. While we are on record as being rather fond of the corset — for two reasons — in reality, there is a much more diverse bunch of British ladies turning heads. And a high proportion of them are swigging pints, not tea.
So we are dedicating this column to the introduction and celebration of some of today's most desirable ladies in dear old Blighty. And because we are gripped by UK election fever, we decided to be democratic about it and sent a Twat out a few days ago asking you to nominate the UK ladies you wish were of a lesbian persuasion.
It would be far too challenging a task to look at this with any deep meaning — we'd have to flick through historical archives,...
So we are dedicating this column to the introduction and celebration of some of today's most desirable ladies in dear old Blighty. And because we are gripped by UK election fever, we decided to be democratic about it and sent a Twat out a few days ago asking you to nominate the UK ladies you wish were of a lesbian persuasion.
It would be far too challenging a task to look at this with any deep meaning — we'd have to flick through historical archives,...
- 5/10/2010
- by Sarah and Lee
- AfterEllen.com
Lc who? Kristin Cavallari is back in the limelight on The Hills and she is already stirring up the drama. Only one episode has aired and the tabloid drama is already at an all-time high. Within the first episode, the self proclaimed bad girl got into it with Audrina Patridge and Stephanie Pratt and secured a date with Audrina's ex, Justin Bobby. All we can say is, Kristen, we have missed you and welcome back to the spotlight. When Lauren Conrad left Laguna Beach, Kristin Cavallari swooped in as the anti-Lauren and fans fell in love with her carefree attitude, bubbly personality, and her untamed wild side. The wild child ruled MTV for a few seasons as the star of Laguna Beach but quietly exited, moving on to bigger and better things. Making the trek up north from Laguna Beach to Los Angeles, Cavallari quickly began to book movie deals,...
- 10/7/2009
- by cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
- TVStar
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